{"id":219138,"date":"2026-03-02T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:00:17","slug":"otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Otterbourg Ex-Partner Beats Privacy Suit From Former Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues\">Otterbourg Ex-Partner Beats Privacy Suit From Former Colleagues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues\">https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 13:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bloomberglaw.com\">news.bloomberglaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An attorney accused by two of his former partners at Otterbourg PC of rummaging through their personal data on the firm\u2019s network defeated their invasion-of-privacy lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The aggrieved attorneys\u2019 intrusion-upon-seclusion claim failed because that cause of action isn\u2019t recognized under New York law, Judge Sarah F. Russell of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut said Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Russell granted defendant James M. Cretella\u2019s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, but gave plaintiffs Richard Stehl and Richard D. Haddad\u2014senior partners at the firm\u2014leave to replead a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p>The three attorneys worked together over &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otterbourg Ex-Partner Beats Privacy Suit From Former Colleagues https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/otterbourg-ex-partner-beats-privacy-suit-from-former-colleagues Publish Date: 2026-03-02 13:03:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bwrite-static.bloombergindustry.com\/dims4\/default\/0ec79fd\/2147483647\/crop\/957x369+0+0\/resize\/960x370%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2F73%2F7f%2F1cba4e124557984f4e903b03526c%2Fblwlegalintel-gavel-002.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219140,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219138\/revisions\/219140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}